The Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Muslim Socio-Political Thought, Sunar,Lutfi, Editör, Routledge, London/New York , New York, ss.88-100, 2022
This investigation, covering the second half of the 19th century to the first quarter of the 20th century, will discuss with a focus on Egypt the formation phase of contemporary Islamic thought that had emerged in parallel with the modernization process. The list of individuals and works that represent this field is long and spread over a large span of time, starting with names like Jamal ad-Din Al-Afghani (d. 1897) and Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905), and extending to Rashid Rida (d. 1935) and others. Undoubtedly, the Al-Afghani-Abduh line has different ideological extensions in Egypt. However, when coming to Islamic thought, Rashid Rida and the Manar school are rather representative. Given the multidimensionality of Islamic thought, this chapter will limit the focus of the subject to the fields of law and politics. This chapter will examine the liberal approaches, which are in close relation with the Manar school and had thus developed within the Islamist line, using Ali Abd al-Raziq (d. 1966) as a representative example, and will also cover critiques on him in terms of Islamic political thought.